They do not handle hybrid graphics currently, Bumblebee and Ironhide are the way for nVidia cards while fglrx should offer support (but X restart is required, and it currently does not work for me not in mux neither in muxless configurations).
2012/2/18 Pacho Ramos <[email protected]>: > El sáb, 18-02-2012 a las 01:49 +0100, Danilo Pianini escribió: >> I finally have an Optimus netbook in my hands. >> >> I installed the packages in sabayonlinux.org. There are a few problems. >> >> 1 - The bbswitch module does not seem to work: >> >> 1215n-sabayon valentina # modprobe bbswitch >> FATAL: Error inserting bbswitch >> (/lib/modules/3.2.0-sabayon/kernel/drivers/acpi/bbswitch.ko): Invalid >> module format >> >> This does not allow to power down the discrete GPU when unused. >> Recompiling from our overlay makes this working, so I guess it just >> needs a recompilation. >> >> >> 2 - The user should be added to the group "bumblebee" in order to >> allow to run optirun >> >> >> 3 - I am able to run optirun correctly as root, but I have problem as >> regular user: >> valentina@1215n-sabayon ~ $ optirun --debug glxgears >> [DEBUG]Active configuration: >> [DEBUG] bumblebeed config file: /usr/local/etc/bumblebee/bumblebee.conf >> [DEBUG] X display: :8 >> [DEBUG] LD_LIBRARY_PATH: /usr/lib/opengl/nvidia:/usr/lib32/opengl/nvidia >> [DEBUG] Socket path: /var/run/bumblebee.socket >> [DEBUG] VGL Compression: proxy >> [DEBUG]optirun version 3.0 starting... >> [INFO]Response: Yes. X is active. >> >> [INFO]Running application through vglrun. >> [DEBUG]Process vglrun started, PID 9622. >> Error: couldn't get an RGB, Double-buffered visual >> [DEBUG]SIGCHILD received, but wait failed with No child processes >> [DEBUG]Socket closed. >> [DEBUG]Killing all remaining processes. >> >> >> I'll do deeper tests tomorrow. >> >> -- >> Ing. Dott. Danilo Pianini >> >> Site: http://www.danilopianini.org/ >> Phone: +39 320 41 36 573 >> Skype: dany.sk >> >> > > Personally I am still running *old* bumblebee (not rewritten one) for my > optimus laptop. Probably should try new one (but haven't had enough time > for that yet :S). Do you have any idea about how more "popular" > distributions (like Fedora, OpenSuSE, Ubuntu...) are currently handling > optimus cards? > Thanks > > > -- Ing. Dott. Danilo Pianini Site: http://www.danilopianini.org/ Phone: +39 320 41 36 573 Skype: dany.sk
